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  1. Machjo

    Where do you get your news from?

    So where do you get all your news from? I used to watch CCTV9 but it's really boring, and all the other channels are in Chinese. My Chinese is OK, but not that good. I tend to like to get my news from the horse's mouth, as well as from sources which tend to present news which might be more...
  2. Machjo

    Canada's first esperantist MP

    http://www.grahamsteele.ca/esperanto.html
  3. Machjo

    Do you believe this?

    I'm not a big fan of conspiracy theories and all, and usually find it hard to believe such stuff, but somehow my gut tells me this is true: http://www.religioustolerance.org/reconstr.htm What do you think of this?
  4. Machjo

    How to stop the spread of fundamentalism?

    In the last few years it seems that fundamentalism has grown in North America, and not only in the US, but canada too, from what I keep reading all the time. More anti-Muslim propaganda, the politicization of religion in the US, the increasingly politicized evolution debate, etc. So what's the...
  5. Machjo

    Your thoughts on the future of Sino-Canadian relations?

    Hmmm... Well, what can I say, other than, I LOVE CHINA! I think that sums it up nicely on my part, no bias of course. And what do you think?
  6. Machjo

    Que pensez-vous de la lngue seconde u Quebec?

    http://www.vigile.net/ds-langue/docs/02-3-27-verrier.html Que serrait mieux selon vous?
  7. Machjo

    Best bet for bilinguals; sovereignty or federation?

    I'm a Franco-Ontarian living in China, and wondering how would bilingual Canadians, be they Franco-Ontarians, English Quebecers or others in other provinces, especially those whose families live in both Quebec and the ROC, fare in the event of a yes vote? Would Franco-Ontarians have reason to...
  8. Machjo

    A question for the fundamentalists about literalism.

    I'm wondering, if your five-year-old daughter asked you one day about the words fusion ad fision, alog with atom, How would you explain it to her considering er limited vocabulary? You might fist consider comparing the atom to a star system, but that's too complex for afive-year-old. So ten...
  9. Machjo

    US leaders honoured for "the courage of their convictio

    Slime-mould bugs named after US statesmen US President George W Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney and Secretary of Defence Donald Rumsfeld can now also be called bushi, cheneyi and rumsfeldi, or simply slime-mould beetles. Two former Cornell University entomologists named three species in the...
  10. Machjo

    Your thoughts on the Japan textbook scandal.

    I've been in China for awhile, so I;m not even aware if Canadians are aware of this. Some tension is building between the Japanese government and those of neighbouring countries which had been victims of Japanese aggression during WWII. The issue involves a history textbook which many...
  11. Machjo

    A question about pligamy.

    I'm not a Christian myself, and likewise have no interest in poligamy (I even oppose poligamy on the ethical front), though I have no particular political opinion about it. In the New Testament, though, there is no explicit prohibition against poligamy. I seem to vaguely remember reading a...
  12. Machjo

    US encouraged by Vietnam vote!

    http://dailykos.com/story/2005/1/31/2335/87390
  13. Machjo

    Ought we start petitions...

    ..calling on the world's governments to pass a resolution against the US government, perhaps even requiring the current government to step down, in protest against the lik below from another thread in this forum? And if the resolution is violated, then military sanctions will be applied to the...
  14. Machjo

    If you became a soldier...

    I'd like to know your thoughts on conscientious objection? First off, would you ever voluntarily join a military force? Secondly, if you did become a soldier, either voluntarily or by conscription, how would you react? Please be honest here. This is not a moral or ethical question, nor do I...
  15. Machjo

    The legality of hosting US AWOL soldiers in Canada?

    I'd like to know your ideas on the following. It would seem to me that if Canada refused to go to war in Iraq on principle, the principle being respect for international law, then would it not stand to reason that Canada ought to maintain the same principle in relation to US soldiers fleeing to...
  16. Machjo

    How to keep the CIA busy?

    Al-Salam'u'Alaikum brothers and siters. I came up with this theory while thinking about the Hizbullah that perhaps US intelligence gets notified of any internet correspondence containing words such as al-Qaida, jihad, Qur'an, hadith, ahadith, Mullah, 'Ullamah and other words which could...
  17. Machjo

    La politique des langues secondes dans le Quebec?

    En ce moment je comprend qu'a Quebec on doit apprendre l'anglais a l'ecole secondaire. Cependant, il me semble un peut ridicule d'obliger les eleves d'apprendre l'anglais a l'ecole et ensuite avoir la Loi 101 pour leur decourager d'utiliser ce qu'ils ont appris. Pourrais-je suggerer que le...
  18. Machjo

    Your thoughts on a Federation of the Americas?

    With the EU well uneder way, do the Americas need ther same? And what if the USA doesn't want to join? Should we let this hold us back, or ought we rather simply offer an open invitation (Those who want in, join; and those who don't, don't). In that case, if the US chose not to join, do you...
  19. Machjo

    Your thoughts on the future of Sino-Canadian relations?

    I'm a French Canadian sinophile currently living in China and so am naturally interested in knowing how most Canadians might think about the subject? I've already noticed since joining this forum that I seem to be a little out of touch with the way Canadians in Canada think as is; I suppose...
  20. Machjo

    Language futures Canada.

    What is your vision of Canada's language future, and why? My vision would be the first option sinse an easy second language would allow for universal bilingualsim, save the government money on translation, and allow neither French or Englsih Canadians to have to submit to the language and...